Monday, August 23, 2010

tabbed application windows in kde4

This is something that I love to use in Fluxbox. There, you simply drag a window's title bar onto another and you get one window with two tabs. In KDE4, you right-click on a title bar, click on "Move Window to Group," and choose the group of applications that you want tabbed.

It's a great feature in Fluxbox, and a pretty good feature in KDE4. I noticed, however, that switching between tabs in KDE4 isn't as snappy as it is in Fluxbox; and, the applications themselves seem a little bit slower when they're tabbed. Because of these things, I'm not sure how much I'll use tabs in KDE4, but it's nice to have the feature available.